Pat Gibbons with Gráinne the fox watch a stage of the 2017 An Post Rás na mBan in Kilkenny. Cycling is my favourite sport to cover and I’ve been so fortunate to have had such wonderful experiences over the years. On this day we were just zooming along and out of the corner of my eye, I spotted a man on the side of the road with something sitting on his shoulder. Pat was more interested in watching the race but Gráinne was widely alert and was happy to pose for me! It is typically Irish in a way that no one would pass much notice of a man watching a cycling race in the middle of the week with a fox sitting on his shoulder.

Source: Irish Examiner June 22, 2020 17:26 UTC